Priced Out: The Podcast

We talk with Michelle Lewis about the emotional and psychological impacts of gentrification and displacement known as Root Shock. Lewis is a mental health counselor who works specifically with the African American community in Portland, Ore. She was featured in our documentary Priced Out. In the film, she talked about losing her home in the subprime mortgage crisis and the challenges of living in a far-flung neighborhood that was often hostile to black residents. Lewis updates us on her recent experiences with gentrification and talks about how her black clients must often choose their battles carefully when they feel confronted by a racist exchange. The discussion gets personal as our hosts weigh in on their own experiences and thoughts. Find Us At www.pricedoutmovie.com/ www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX twitter.com/pricedoutusa www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

An interview with Portland data activist Megan Hanson. Hanson is a complex data analyst who works with logistics software giant Oracle. After seeing alarming rent hikes and a wave of demolitions in her neighborhood, she started to investigate the Portland zoning code on her free time. She found that the State of Oregon required a public notification process before older homes could be demolished, but that the City of Portland was no longer enforcing these rules. As a result, developers were able to buy up cheap rental properties, evict tenants and knock them down. Hanson also helped create a multilayered data map designed to illustrate the impacts of Portland’s new proposal to up-zone 96% of the city. Join us as we get into the weeds of the intersectionality of affordable housing, demolitions, displacement, and historic preservation. For another point of view, check out EP 10: What is Zoning and the Residential Infill Strategy https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e2b15i Find Us At www.pricedoutmovie.com/ www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX twitter.com/pricedoutusa www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ Links- Residential Infill Strategy Data Map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/presentation/index.html?webmap=f6c7e6e953c545cfa70e6e356d6263cd&fbclid=IwAR2McERMRo6TIPDR8WKpwIGeG-z9UIcxbUOU5Qwlm_1wMcZimMQOur1GEYw What the National Home Builder’s Association really thinks of liberal opponents: http://demandaffordability.org/files/NAHB_%20AEA%20-%20HBA%20Awards%20Winner%20Directory.htm?fbclid=IwAR0gTa1v5YjAWKC2BwjhWDL3SRGsyWIVyRtEb-pft689R3rzB_4hXhZ7XY8 ​https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2016/09/07/18548313/portlands-oldest-buildings-just-got-harder-to-demolish Residential Infill Project Displacement Risk map. https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=f6c7e6e953c545cfa70e6e356d6263cd&extent=-122.6869,45.548,-122.6363,45.5687 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

We get into the weeds of neighborhood history once again with Fred Stewart, Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. In this the second part of two interviews, Fred talks about when he got into real estate during the depths of the 1980s Drug War, what it took to sell a house in the "ghetto", tax revolts, how he got around redlining and why he bought a strip club from a white man who called him " Fred Shit." In Part 1 of this interview, Fred covers redlining, urban renewal and the heyday of Portland's black neighborhoods. Fred has a deep history with Northeast Portland and is featured in Priced Out the movie. This is part of the "Cut Out" where we explore more from the people and POVs that were left out of the documentary Priced Out. Part 1 of Fred Stewart https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e2b183 Find us at: www.pricedoutmovie.com/ www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX twitter.com/pricedoutusa www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

This episode is part of a new occasional series we're calling Getting to Know You.  Andru and Cornelius talk about the issues from their own personal experience.  Andru was a homeless outreach worker in Tulsa for many years and Cornelius is from a part of NJ that has recently been lauded for "ending homelessness" or achieving what is called "functional zero." The two talk about what functional zero means, the flaws with counting unhoused populations and their philosophy on interacting with homeless neighbors. More from Priced Out: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

We are mid-season here at Priced Out and your hosts Andru and Cornelius what to hear what city you think we should be covering. Andru and Cornelius talk about their recent travels and the gentrification that they've seen in a bunch of places including Cartagena, Colombia, Kansas City, Missouri, and Vancouver, British Colombia. Listen in and see what they saw happening in those places.   In Colombia, where Cornelius' mother was born, Cartagena has transformed from a third-world city into a resort town with almost no full-time domestic residents, virtually overnight. In Kansas City, Andru returned to his childhood stomping ground and found Brad Pitt, of all people, had taken up shop and was fighting gentrification. In British Colombia, Cornelius found the slums of Gastown and Chinatown full of homelessness, drug addiction, boarded-up buildings, and extremely expensive rent! Those are just a few stories a future Priced Out Podcast could pursue. Tell us which one you like best. Or, if there's a city you think we should cover (your city?) let us know. Get ahold of us at pricedoutmovie@gmail.com or through any of our social networks. More about Priced Out here: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Stephen Green is featured in our documentary Priced Out, but not nearly enough.  Born in a suburb of Portland, Stephen moved into the heart of Oregon's black community when he started a family. An economist, venture capitalist and activist, Stephen has worked in both government and in the private sector.  He oversaw property acquisition for the City of Portland during some of the most volatile years of gentrification in the black community. He is also on a committee that distributes funds from Portland's largest affordable housing bond. He serves on the board of the city's premiere black community organization (Self Enhancement Inc.). And he helped create the nation's first nonprofit brewpub. The black community is far more broadly defined than simply a neighborhood for Stephen. He also sees wealth creation, rather than social justice, as the most vital challenge in charting an equitable future for Portland and the nation's African American community. Listen in as Stephen talks about the emerging role that the black middle class will come to play in urban America and all the things that Priced Out the documentary failed to cover. Stephen Green's Ted Talk: https://youtu.be/abKBA9RvQ0I  More about Priced Out here: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Cluj-Napoca is a historic city of about 300,000 residents in northeast Romania. The city is considered the unofficial capital of Transylvania and it contains the country’s largest free university. Since the fall of communism in the 1990s, Romania's housing stock has been re-privatized. That's created the first generation of renters in 50 years while at the same time little rent regulation and low-cost housing have been put in place. Recently, a new mayor has pushed free-market reforms, tax breaks and zoning changes in a bid to make Cluj-Napoca into the hipster, tech-hub of Romania. The result has been skyrocketing rents and displacement of the region’s students, renters, and Roma (gypsy) population. Sound familiar?  It’s gentrification with a post-communist twist.   Cornelius speaks with tenant organizers Vlad Muresan of the Cluj Tenants Union for an amazing look at how global capital puts the pinch on working people around the world.     If you have ideas that can help people in Cluj, please reach out to Muresan via the groups Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/chiriasicluj/ More about Priced Out here: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Join us for a live recording of a panel discussion about the threat by a mass transit project poses to the working class, and minority residents of Tigard, Oregon.  Tigard is a suburb immediately to the southwest of Portland. There is a large streetcar project (known as light rail) planned for the area.   As viewers of Priced Out (the documentary) know, that fifteen years ago local government built a light rail system that  caused massive displacement of black and other residents in North Portland. The City of Portland anticipated that the project would create gentrification and promised to build 2,000 units of affordable housing to offset displacement. But 15 years later the city had only produced about 500 units.  Priced Out producer Cornelius Swart, the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Unite Oregon, the Fair Housing Council of Oregon and City of Tigard teamed up to sponsor a screening and discussion aimed at engaging the residents of Tigard, and helping them avoid the mistakes of the past. Find us at: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Donte Moss, T. Walker, and Brad Simmons are three young black men from North Carolina, and they think Portland is great. You don’t hear that kind of message too often and certainly not on this show. So, for Black History Month, we’re happy to share what these energetic and positive young men have to say.  Moss, a former defensive end for the Tar Heels, moved to Portland several years ago and has brought out Walker and Simmons to check the place out. Together they are part of the art and community promotional group S.O.U.L. Society. For them, Portland is a land of opportunity, free of the front-stabbing oppression of Southern-style racism.  Cornelius sat down with them for an informal chat about their lives as black men, what it’s like in North Carolina, and why they think Portland is so exciting to them. Find us at: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

After a five-year struggle, [documented in part in Priced Out (the documentary)] housing activists are getting the impossible. The Oregon Legislature is poised to be the first in the nation to impose rent control on an entire state.  Coming on the heels of a housing crisis that scorched Portland and other cities with double-digit rent increases, many see rent control as a massive win for stabilizing working-class renters.   Or is it?   Housing activist and founder of Portland Tenants United, Margot Black, talks to us about what is in the bill and why she thinks it doesn’t go far enough.  She also says what voters can do to help. Margot's recommended link to the Oregon Housing Alliance HERE. If you are fancy and have a WSJ subscription (we don't) you can read about Oregon rent control and why it's all Margot's fault HERE. Find us at: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Welcome to Season 2 of the Priced Out Podcast. People use a lot of different terms when referring to gentrification. What’s the differences between revitalization, gentrification and a housing crisis?  Why can't the government build affordable housing to compensate communities of color for years of housing discrimination?  This is a part two of a conversation we starter last year.  All this plus Andru shares a big secret and we finally find out what’s under Cornelius’ pants.  Find us at: https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://www.youtube.com/c/pricedouttalesofgentrification --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Happy Holidays from the #PricedOut #podcast. We're wrapping up Season 1 and our first year as a podcast. It's been awesome and thank you for your support. In this conversation between Andru and Cornelius, Andru unwraps a present! Cornelius begs. Andru talks about black comic books. And we promise we will look/sound less janky next year. We also preview our other major podcast goals for 2019. Last but not least, Cornelius goes off on Qualified Opportunity Zones. Next year, Trump will turn the 900 lb gorilla of gentrification into Godzilla, as the Federal Government gets into the gentrification game. That said, some black leaders are optimistic. Listen and find out more. PS- please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Two more subscribers and we can get a custom URL! Or better yet, support the podcast on Anchor.Fm. (see link below) https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

On Episode 25 we interview multifamily real estate investment broker Ru Budhi. He is a Filipino-American investment agent who worked at firms like Norris Stevens during the Portland's housing crisis. He understands how apartment buildings and condos get financed and why. He’s going to explain why we are having a housing crisis from the investor's point of view. Listen in as we talk financing, Glass-Steagall and why it seems to be in the landlord's interest that poor neighborhoods stay poor. Uncut interview on our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc9cZ46uY8p-T5Mbv0T1QA?view_as=subscriber Find Us at: https://www.pricedoutmovie.com https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie https://anchor.fm/priced-out-podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAc9cZ46uY8p-T5Mbv0T1QA?view_as=subscriber --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

This edition of the Priced Out Podcast Cornelius preaches on Abortion, the NRA and voting whether you like the results or not. The podcast endorses candidates and some vitally important ballot measures before the voters next month. Special guest Kari Lyons from the Welcome Home Coalition talks about the housing bond Measure 26-199 and a Measure 102 that would allow tax dollars spend on affordable housing to be massively amplified. Remember to get your ballots in! https://welcomehomecoalition.org/ Find Us At https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Illegal Airbnbs could pull up to 1,500 housing units from Portland each year despite a new city clampdown, according data from the website InsideAirbnb. Cornelius and his friend Thacher Schmid just published an investigative report in Portland Mercury about illegal Airbnbs and their impact on the Portland housing crisis. In this special edition podcast, Cornelius and Thacher talk about their story, about the data they used, and why Portlanders still love Airbnb even though most seem to know hosts can make the housing crisis worse. http://insideairbnb.com/portland/ https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2018/10/11/23548145/illegal-airbnbs-could-take-1500-rentals-off-market/ https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

What does the word gentrification actually mean? Did you know in the original definition of the word, gentrification it is always bad? It's never a good thing. What is "affordable housing?" versus "public housing?" Did you know the terms refer to very specific kind of housing that receive differing levels of taxpayer subsidy? Learn more about the language people use when discussing gentrification. #NerdAlert this will get wonky. More at: https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

This edition of Priced Out: The Podcast is a discussion about the journalism behind the making of Priced Out (the documentary). Topics ranged from dealing with controversial sources, navigating government "obfuscation" and storylines in which both the government and the voters themselves are partially to blame. The talk was recorded at Migration Brewing Company in Northeast Portland and was sponsored by the local chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Association and Solutions Journalism. The Q&A was moderated by Sara Roth, an investigative web-based reporter for KGW NewsChannel8. The event featured sever long clips from the film. #pricedout #gentrification #pdx https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/spjoregon/ https://www.facebook.com/onapdx/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

Fred Stewart may be Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. He's twice run unsuccessfully for Portland City Council. His views are unconventional, and his style is confrontational. He claims to be a Democrat who continually blasts "white liberals" on everything from gun control (there's too much of it) to their inability to do more for blacks in Oregon (maybe the GOP would be better?). Fred has a deep history with Northeast Portland and is featured in Priced Out the movie. In this first of two parts (nonconsecutive) Fred talks about growing up in the neighborhood, crime, black business opportunities and challenges and people who made it big when the property values in the community started to climb. Part of the "Cut Out" series of POVS that were not adequately represented in the documentary Priced Out due to time limitations. https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

This week we do a stylistic turn inspired by NPR shows like This American Life in order to cover the battle to get rent control on the ballot in Long Beach, California. Many people don't know that Long Beach is the sevenths largest city in California. Overshadowed by LA to the north and Orange County to the south, Long Beach is 60 percent renters - the highest rate in the state. We talk to Josh Butler of Housing Long Beach about their struggle to put rent reform on the ballot and their pitched battle against the shadowy group Better Housing for Long Beach. Butler describes their nemesis as an Orwellian, AstroTurf Group (instead of a grassroots group). The two fought it out for signatures in the streets of Long Beach. It got ugly and allegedly literally came to blows. We'll be down in Long Beach for a screening on Sept. 20th. If you are anywhere near Southern California and the world's largest urbanized area, come check the show out. More at: https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support

It’s been three years since Nikki Williams wrapped up her last interview for the documentary Priced Out. At that time, she had just moved to Dallas, Texas. She was fed up with Portland, Oregon, and what she called its “color blind“ and “passive-aggressive” racism. She was emotionally devastated by how her black community had been “obliterated” by gentrification. She sold her house and moved to Dallas in search of a new black community. She wanted to live in a neighborhood where people looked like her, where people would treat her daughter and grandson with respect and dignity. So, what’s happened since then? Did she find a healthy black community? Did she become a gentrifier? What are the racial dynamics in Dallas like? Are they any better? Find more information about Nikki and the two films we’ve produced about her at https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support